Imagination

Elizabeth is a funny girl. We were watching a video of her sledding with Darren, so she picked up her Frisbee and sat on it and imagined that she was sledding down a steep snow hill.
Her imagination is an amazing thing. I'll bet you can't guess what the chair, ball, and the little stick in her hand is. If you did, you would be a welcome addition to Lizzie's world. This is her golf game. We went to St. George last week, where the weather was beautiful and Darren played some golf. Lizzie knew that Daddy was golfing and we passed several golf courses. I'll post pictures later. When we got home, she came up with this setup. The upside down chair is where you put the ball and the stick in her hand is the club. Darren showed her how to properly hold the club and she puts the ball in and cheers when the ball goes through the hole.

I thought I would write down a few things that she has come up with recently. (This is more for my memory as I am realizing that I am forgetting A LOT of things and this is just a general summary so I won't forget.)

The golf club that she is holding goes to the pack and play. It is supposed to be a mobile, I think, but we never used it. There are three pieces that she plays with. Two have bumps on the end and one is just a stick. The two with the bumps, she uses as two golf clubs, one for Daddy and one for Lizzie. She uses the stick one as her bow and the other as her violin. This is her second violin, her first violin was the vacuum tubes, but because I needed to use them for vacuuming, she came up with this second one. She has seen me practice and she puts it under her chin and bows just like I do. She says, "I go orchestra." or "I practice too." She usually sings as she plays, her favorite pieces are the ABC's or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We did get her a ukulele for Christmas, and she plays with that as well, but when she sees my violin, she wants to play that as well. She has even taken her "bow" and tried to play her ukulele like the violin but because she can't hold it, it's more like a cello.

She loves the plastic coated baby spoons and takes them from the drawer and either feeds Jonathan, feeds her baby Taylor, or uses them as flowers. She "planted" some of them near her "golf hole". This morning, she woke up, early as usual, and instead of waking us up, turned her own lights on in her room and started playing with her doll Taylor. I heard her say, "Would you like some rice cereal? I make it for you." When we looked in on her, she even had a bib on the baby.

She does pay attention when we are driving around. She liked some of the credit cards in Darren's wallet and my purse and so I gave her a little Subway card. She called it her gas card. She would stroll baby Taylor to the gas station, which is our hallway and she puts her card in the wall and punches buttons. I never realized that she watched Darren so closely when he fills up.

Lizzie has a small blue 3 inch square sample piece of intelligel that she uses for multiple things. Lately it has been used as bread for her french toast or bread for feeding ducks. She feeds the ducks from this blue square and then gives me some so I can feed the ducks too. It is so funny to hear her quack at the duck.

I think we will be getting Lizzie a camera for her birthday. She takes her blocks and there are two pieces that make a square with a hole in the middle and then a cylinder that fits in that hole that she pretends is her camera. She holds it up to her face and says, "smile mommy" and then makes the "Click" sound. She also takes the tripod, that also doubles as her microphone, and does the same thing. Even though she can't see you, she still makes the sound and smiles as if she were looking at the picture that she just took.

Keys and cars. Lizzie's favorite car is Jonathan's high chair. Actually, below Jonathan's high chair. She gets down there and then "drives" around the kitchen. Sometimes with Jonathan in it. Her other car is Jonathan's boppy. She knows that she can only drive that car when Jonathan is sleeping because they both don't fit in the car very well. She has her keys that help her get along. Her latest key is a little stand for small pictures she starts the car and off she goes. This "key" also doubles as her flat iron when she wants to do her or my hair.

What a sweet little girl and I am having so much fun seeing what she will come up with next.